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These are challenging times for those working in enterprise IT departments. We’re assuming that users of the CIO Development web site are either:
- CIOs or other senior IT executives looking for opportunities to develop their teams and functions or;
- IT executives looking to develop their own skills in order to become more effective in their current and future roles.
In either case CIO Development can offer you powerful and proven services that will help you to meet your objectives. We understand what is happening to enterprise IT functions and we know how to equip those who work in them for a successful future.
IT functions are under tremendous pressure to change, threatened as never before by developments in consumer technology and the changes in IT markets. To continue to thrive, they must adapt to their new world and re-skill their people to remain relevant and valuable to the enterprises that own them.
For the first time since their creation, traditional IT departments are starting to look outmoded and irrelevant. Their suppliers and customers can see a future where they work together without the intervention of a corporate IT function.
But we know that IT suppliers have a poor track-record in working directly with business users and those users will pay a high price for the misunderstandings and broken promises that will inevitably ensue. By far the best way forward is to evolve corporate IT so that it remains relevant and valuable by re-skilling it to do the job business needs.
Actually this is two jobs:
- The business still needs an IT department to organise and manage the efficient processing of corporate data into the information executives needs to run a successful enterprise. This is the traditional role of enterprise IT, although these days a lot of the processing is outsourced to third-parties. This requirement is growing rather quickly as ever higher volumes of data require sophisticated and cost-effective management.
- Recently a new IT requirement has emerged that the IT function is best placed to meet. This is the use of corporate technology to engage with the massive explosion of consumer technology used by customers and staff at all levels, and which is threatening to change the rules of traditional business operation in many functions.
Unless corporate IT can step up to the plate and offer professional guidance and leadership in the second area it risks being perceived as out of date and irrelevant and unfit to continue to own the first. This would almost certainly be to the detriment of the business as well as the IT function.
